The trailer of the most awaited movie of the year has hit
cinema screens, TV shows and Youtube. Here is the trailer of Dilwale.
The initial 20 seconds actually look like a Karan Johar/Yash
Chopra movie trailer. Extremely stunning and beautiful backdrop, romantic Shah
Rukh Khan and Kajol, a musical, mystical melody – the intro is has stills of Sooraj hua Madham against the backdrop
of Ishq Wala Love minus the pink tree.
After 30 seconds, you see the quintessential Rohit Shetty movie trailer with colors,
cars and craziness. The rest of the trailer looks like an editing screw up with
two movies intertwined. But let’s not get too hard on Shetty, after all he is
giving us the most Bollywoodishly romantic pair of SRK and Kajol. It is obvious
that Rohit Shetty is banking majorly on the SRK-Kajol magic. Even the title of
the movie is inspired by their biggest blockbuster.
But the movie does not end at the duo. The trailer has
everything that you expect from a Rohit Shetty movie – cars, flying cars,
diving cars, colorful cars, different sized cars, turning cars, rolling cars,
romancing cars and sliding cars. Every frame of Rohit Shetty’s every scene has colors
straight out of Photoshop’s Auto-correct feature, creating a visual delight. The
SRK – Kajol scenes appear to have been shot against Windows screensavers. Shetty’s movies always focus equally on the side
kicks – who usually end up becoming more famous than the protagonists
themselves and this movie has the best line up in terms of talent – Boman Irani,
Sanjay (Paaapaan) Mishra, Johnny
Lever, Varun (Choocha) Sharma, Mukesh
Tiwari and Pankaj Tripathi, hopefully with some new jokes and not a copy paste
of his existing movies – a mistake that a lot of directors do with their
successful comic characters.
Varun and Kriti have the perfect entry scene, right out of
any lesson of Masala Movie 101. They are the new-age romance contrast against
the SRK-Kajol’s out-of-dreams swing. The only obvious issue in this trailer is
the balance of super emotional SRK scenes and crude Rohit Shetty comedy. All of
Shetty’s movies have been on the two extremes – high on comedy – Golmaal series,
Bol Bachchan, Chennai Express or high on emotions and seriousness – Singham
series, but this looks like an equal mix of comedy, emotional drama, youthful
romance, mature love and powerful dialogues. Hopefully unlike the trailer, it
will not look like that you are watching two different movies, stitched up
together.
The story is an old masala with a new packaging – SRK and
Kajol (Meera) were in love, SRK has a dark background – sounds like Aby-Baby’s Hum,
may be; then SRK and Kajol moved away may be because of Kabir Bedi and Vinod
Khanna, and then Varun (Veer) who is SRK’s brother falls for Kriti (Ishita),
who is related to Kajol and the rona-dhona begins.
Before Chennai Express, Rohit Shetty was not expected to
have 10/10 in music. Expectations are high now. There are two numbers playing
in this trailer – one is a KJo – Yash Chopra kind of romantic song and the
other is a Golmaal type funky number. The music may not be Ashiquee-2 but stays
in your head. The romantic song grows on you as you keep listening to it again and
again. The only thing to be explored is where did Pritam pick these numbers
from? ;)
Overall, Rohit Shetty has the perfect formula for a 300
crore movie. If he had an item number by Bhai, this could have been our first 500
crore. Can’t wait to see SRK-Kajol again on-screen!
I can say that this movie will get a 3.5/5 rating. Personally,
for an SRK-Kajol-DDLJ-Rohit Shetty-Varun Dhawan obsessed like me, this is a 5/5
J
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